TN Labor Department settles one lawsuit, awaits trial for another

4:25 AM,
Jan. 12, 2014

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The state labor department has settled one former employee's discrimination lawsuit but failed last week to persuade a Nashville judge to dismiss a second, similar lawsuit headed to trial.

First, on Monday, a federal judge agreed to dismiss a 2012 lawsuit brought by former 27-year state employee Donald B. Ingram, who charged that the Department of Labor and Workforce Development forced him out because he is white, as part of a pattern that brought in 28 black replacements for white employees.

The state will pay Ingram $215,000 to settle the lawsuit but won't admit wrongdoing. The ...